India got Knocked out of the T20 Worldcup. What do you think are major reasons?

@Wismay (2037)
India
June 14, 2009 4:52pm CST
Team India were defending champions and one of the strong batting line up. But they got knocked out of the T20 world cup. South Africa seems to be having a great bunch with solid batting line up and good bowling and adding to their natural fielding efficiency. Srilanka and West Indies also seem to be gained a lot from IPL 2009. But India failed miserably. In your opinion (please be balanced and logical) what do you think are the major mistakes that Indians did that cost them semifinal berth?
7 responses
@bigott (618)
• India
15 Jun 09
Simply because of M.S Dhoni and his experimentation with the battin order..I never thought that he send Ravindra Jadeja up the order.He was included in the playin eleven as the left arm spinner who can bat but sending him up the order instead of Yuvraj is too much for a 20 year old lad.Moreover I think team is going through a bad phase because of so much gaga over the Dhoni Sehwag issue.
@3account (317)
• United States
15 Jun 09
lots of them,over confidence,match fixing,the ipl2 exhaustd our players,some wrong decisions by the capatain,poor batting..
@subha12 (18441)
• India
15 Jun 09
First of all I think its our captain all the way. the way he managed the situation and the team is very bad. The team India has faltered under his captaincy.Then India were over confident after IPL and being defending champion. They think they have earned crores in IPL. They just do not bother to play for country. Its Shame on them.
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
15 Jun 09
In my opinion it is Dhone who is responsible for this loss. His wrong decisions and his slow batting caused the loss. He never lofted his bat in this tournament even if the required run rate is more than 9.
@ajaygupta (168)
• India
15 Jun 09
over confidence, fun, improper and incompet attitude of indian players and their larger than game image of themselves, inapt cordination between themselves, media and we indians who desperatly make them think they are God are the basic reasons
• United States
15 Jun 09
It was actually a combination of things that lead to indias ouster from the t20 wc.first of all was the loss of sehwag as an opener.then there was dhoni playing an innings of 11 of 23 balls against new zeland.also harbhajan conceding two wide fours in two overs against england.so it was an overall failure by the indian team as a unit that lead to them being knocked out of the t20 wc.
@geo_raju (259)
• India
14 Jun 09
dhoni's captancy skills are now under question.he is the main reason for india's lose.his batting performance is very poor.raina who was in great form in ipl lost his flow as he was great at no.3 position but gave 4th position in indian team and dhoni took no.3 position .his batting performance againt west indies 11 from 23 balls was reason for india's lose.then india's lineup changed jadeja was bought in place of irfan really bad decision as he made 25 out of 35 and india lost by 4 runs from this you can understand who made wrong decisions.absence of shewang is another major reason his injury and now because of ipl sewangh got injured and we lost wc because of ipl too much of cricket.........